More Ad Networks Redirecting To Malware Sites

The problem I described a couple weeks ago of ads on a news site redirecting you to a rogue antispyware site has gotten worse, More sites, including non-news sites, and some prominent advertising networks are involved. I expanded on the...

For my work I relied heavily, as I often do, on the help of Sunbelt Software, whose CEO also delved into the subject in a blog of his own. Sunbelt adds some great details like the fact that these guys have actually been buying at least some of the ad space they've been abusing.

They also point to a YouTube video showing the attack, for those of you who haven't and don't want to experience it live. You can watch the video from in a blog entry by Roger Thompson of Exploit Prevention Labs, who made it. Thompson explains a lot of the mechanics of how the ad gets to you.